Kerala police arrests PFI leader in RSS worker SK Srinivasan's murder case

Palakkad , September 20: In a major development, the Kerala police has arrested Popular Front of India (PFI) leader in connection with the alleged murder of an RSS leader in Kerala’s Palakkad district in April this year.

 

 

Aboobaker Siddik, Palakkad district secretary of PFI, was arrested for allegedly hatching a conspiracy to kill RSS leader SK Srinivasan, 45, on April 16.

 

Siddik was also allegedly one of the members of a group of PFI activists who had prepared the list of leaders of various political organisations including the BJP, CPI(M) and Youth League — the youth wing of the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) — to be attacked in retaliation for the murder of a PFI leader, a police officer said.

 

 

 

The PFI, however, refuted the allegations against Siddik and alleged that the CPI(M)-led LDF government was trying to nab its workers in the state as it was upset with the massive turnout in a rally Islamic outfit’s recent rally in Kozhikode.

 

Srinivasan, a former district leader and office-bearer of RSS, was allegedly killed by a group of six people at his motorbike shop in Melamuri on April 16. He was attacked barely 24 hours after PFI leader Subair was hacked to death at Elappully in the district on April 15 afternoon.

 

Over 20 workers of PFI and those affiliated to the outfit or its political offshoot Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI), were arrested in connection with Srinivasan’s killing.

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